§ Statement of Purpose

The View from 1776 presents a framework to understand present-day issues from the viewpoint of the colonists who fought for American independence in 1776 and wrote the Constitution in 1787. Knowing and preserving those understandings, what might be called the unwritten constitution of our nation, is vital to preserving constitutional government. Without them, the bare words of the Constitution are just a Rorschach ink-blot that politicians, educators, and judges can interpret to mean anything they wish.

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams, to the Officers of the First Brigade, Third Division, Massachusetts Militia, October 11, 1798.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Which Way the Wind Blows With Obama

Weatherman Underground members were activists in the Soviet revolutionary sense, aiming to destroy the political and social framework of the United States. Senator Obama, closely allied with the leaders of Weatherman Underground, has worked throughout his career to further Weatherman’s anti-capitalist and anti-American agenda.

He proposes to raise our taxes back to the confiscatory levels of earlier Democrat/Socialist administrations. He proposes to expand the welfare-state, aiming to make us all equally poor, in conformity with the social justice paradigm of equally distributed income without regard to productive work or merit.

Key members of his campaign staff are Weatherman alumni or supporters. Senator Obama was a member for 20 plus years of Rev. Wright’s church, where the reverend repeatedly damned the United States and its white citizens.

His first job out of law school was working with a radical, left-wing group under Saul Alinsky, whose tactics aimed to undermine the existing governmental and social framework in order to institute socialism. Mr. Alinsky, by the way, also was viewed favorably by Senator Hillary Clinton when she was emerging from Wellesley College in 1969.

Can we doubt which way the wind will propel Senator should disaster befall us with his accession to the presidency?

Senator Obama’s defenders will tell us that reporting the truth is tarring the Senator with guilt by association. They will say that he was only seven years old when his friends and political supporters Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were running Weatherman, so that there can be no connection between Weatherman and Senator Obama.

That is arrant nonsense.

Vladimir Lenin was born 22 years after Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. But no one will dispute that Lenin was hugely influenced by Marxian socialism.

Senator Obama is not only much closer in age to the Weatherman period than was Lenin to Marx, but Obama’s Karl Marx is still living and working directly with him.